So-called "oversensitivity" and bipolar disorder go together like salt and pepper. I don't know too many BPers who aren't acutely sensitive to every sling and arrow that comes their way, whether real or imagined.

Personally, I'm not much of a crier---I get angry instead---but I certainly tend to overreact when I feel I've been slighted. Just the other day at work, we had a staff appreciation party, and I was turned away at two different tables I tried to sit down at because people were "saving seats" for somebody else.

Well, I thought, if I was going to relive third grade, I wasn't about to stick around. You know the whole "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I'm gonna go eat some worms" thing. So I stomped off to my office, only to be intercepted by my boss who said "It's OK, I'LL sit with you---come on." And he did, even though by this time I was feeling pretty foolish acting like a 9-year-old at age 54!